Guiding means for bowling-alley pin spotters or setters.



PATENTED FEB. 6, 1906.

C. L. BASTIAN. GUIDING MEANS FOR BOWLING ALLEY PIN SPOTTERS 0R SETTERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAB..20, 1905.

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specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. a, 19cc.

Application filed March 20, 1905. Serial No. 250,909.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES L. BASTIAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of .Illi- 1101s, have invented new and useful Improvements in Guiding Means for Bowlin -Alley Pin Spotters or Setters, of which thefo owing is a specification,

The object of this invention is to provide a simple means for guiding vertically-movable bowling-alley pin spotters or setters which can be manufactured at low cost and which can be made in a standard size and adjusted to reasonable variations in the framework of the alleys.

In the accompanyin drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation showing t e invention with the spotter lowered. F1 2 is a detail sectional view on the line 2 2 0 Fig. 1.

It will not be necessary to enter into a detail descri tion of the construction of the spotter 5 for it will be understood that the invention can be used with vertically-movable s otters or setters of various types with very s ight, if any, changes in the particular construction and arrangement of parts shown in these drawings.

The spotter herein indicated is of the type covered by my Patent No. 729,118, dated May 26, 1903, and m application, Serial No. 238,517, filed Decem or 27, 1904..

The spotter is carried by u rights 6, which are suitably fastened at their lower ends to the spotter and have clamps 7 screw-threaded or otherwise secured on their upper ends. A cross-rod 8 is rigidly secured in the clamps 7 and carries uide-brackets on its ends,which are arran e to travel in the channel-guides 11, suitab y secured in an upri ht position, as to the kick-backs 12 and the cei ing 13. Each guide-bracket comprises the outwardly-diverging arms 14, provided at their inner con verging ends with the two members of a clamp 15, which is rigidly bolted on the crossrod 8. A shoe 16 is carried b the outer diverging ends of these arms an travels in the channel of the guide 1 1.

The s otter and guide-frame are counterbalance by the wei hts 17, attached to ropes 18, running over pulleys 19, suspended from the ceiling and attached to some of the parts of the guide-frame. These ropes 18 can be attached to the clam s 7 or clamps 15 or to the cross-rod 8, and l have shown them attached to the clamps 7. The spotter may be lifted by a hand-rope 20, traveling over the pulley 21, suspended from the ceiling and attached to a'clamp 22 on the cross-rod, as shown, or directly to the cross rod itself. Any other suitable means for lifting the spotter or setter may be employed.

My invention is very simple in construction and can be easily and quickly put up and adjusted to fit the conditions found in each particular alley. The guide-brackets can be adjusted lengthwise of the cross-rod 8 to fit any reasonable variations in width that may be found betwee the kick-backaand this, together with the connection of the various iarts by means of clamps, enables me to ma e this framework in a standard size adapted for use in all regulation alleys, as adjustments can be easily made to lit the frame to an ordinary variations that may be found. The i rame is made of metal, the uprights 6 and cross-rod 8 being made of rolled tubing or ordinary pipe, the guides 11 and the shoes 16 being made of channel-iron and the uidebrackets and clamps being made of trial eable castings. The frame can be made at very low cost and shipped knocked down, with the spotter, to bowling-alley proprietors, who will be able to easily and uickl install the spotter in place. The en s of t e channel-guides 11 are adjustably secured in any suitable manner to the T-irons 23, which are fastened to the kick-backs 12 and to the ceiling, so that these guides can be adjusted to reasonable variations between the kick-backs and the ceiling.

Without limiting myself to the exact construction and arrangement of parts herein shown and described, what it claim, and desire to secure by Letters latent, is-

1 The combination of a vertically-movable bowling-alley pin spotter or setter, uprights fastened thereto, a cross-rod fastened'to said uprights, guides at the sides of the alley, and guide-brackets adjustably mounted on the ends of said cross-rod an arranged to travel in said guides.

2. The combination of a vertically-movable bowling-alley pin spotter or setter, uprights fastened thereto, a cross-rod, clamps fasteningsaid cross-rod to said uprights, guides at the sides of the alley, guide-brackets adjustabl mounted on the ends of said cross-rod, an shoes on said brackets arranged to travel against said guides.

3. The combination of avertically-movable bowling-alley pin spotter or setter, uprights verging arms, and guide-shoes carried by said fastellied theretg, a efloss-rod, claimps fasten-- arms and traveling in said channel-guides. in t e cross-r0 to t e u er en s of the u *1 rights, channel-guides exgiidedu Ward froiil (JHARLES BiAbTIAN' 5 the kick-backs at the side of the a ley, guide- Witnesses:

brackets adjustably mounted on the ends of WM. 6. BELT, said cross-rod and comprising outwardly-di- M. A. KIDDIE. 

